![]() ![]() ![]() According to Variety, Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein will adapt the book as a dramedy. in short, Straight Man is classic Russo-side-splitting and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down. Bob Odenkirk has been tapped to star in AMCs adaptation of Richard Russos 1997 novel Straight Man. ![]() All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. Based on the novel Straight Man by Richard Russo, Lucky Hank is a mid-life crisis tale that takes place on a fictional college campus in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt. Former owners blind embossed ownershp seal on half title page, else a clean, unmarked copy. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character-he is a born anarchist- and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. The fourth novel from Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Priize winning author of Empire Falls. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. ![]() In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. ![]()
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